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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8127544 | Two-stroke HCCI compound free-piston/gas-turbine engine This invention provides a compact, fuel-efficient internal combustion engine that can be used to provide rotating shaft output power to a wide variety of mobile and stationary applications. It is based on a two-stroke free-piston gas generator that implements the ho... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8007457 | Elasticized garment and strapping system to aid in body mobility support and maintenance A therapeutic garment system for use on a mammalian body, and associated method of donning, whereby the garments are adapted for donning and releasably securing in a close-fitting fashion so that a plurality of elasticized pieces may be releasably applied, utilizing... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7966949 | Device for supporting an item(s) while in transit within a vehicle having passenger seating and when carried from location to location An assembly for supporting at least one item while in transit within a vehicle having cushioned passenger seating. The assembly used during transit within a vehicle, has: a platform (for supporting the item) that has an aperture for receiving at least one primary su... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7918402 | Item labeling, inspection and verification system for use in manufacturing, packaging, product shipment-fulfillment, distribution, or on-site operations An item contents verification system, and associated method, for use in an assembly line of carrier-totes (if used) each containing at least one of a plurality of items having a labeling. Also, a labeling for use with a computerized inspection apparatus for verifica... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912661 | Impedance analysis technique for frequency domain characterization of magnetoelastic sensor element by measuring steady-state vibration of element while undergoing constant sine-wave excitation Circuitry and program code adapted for carrying out an associated technique for characterizing the response of one or more magnetoelastic sensor elements during exposure to an excitation field generated by an interrogation coil: including: (a) measuring a total sens... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7852479 | Apparatus and method for measuring the fluorescence of large multi-cellular organisms Apparatus and methods for measuring the fluorescence of large multi-cellular organisms in a sample of liquid includes a pumping mechanism, a fluorescence measuring device, a method of analyzing the measurements, and optionally, a sorting mechanism. The pumping mecha... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844079 | System and technique for retrieving depth information about a surface by projecting a composite image of modulated light patterns A technique, associated system and program code, for retrieving depth information about at least one surface of an object, such as an anatomical feature. Core features include: projecting a composite image comprising a plurality of modulated structured light pattern... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7830928 | Quasi-phase matching and quantum control of high harmonic generation in waveguides using counterpropagating beams All-optical quasi-phase matching (QPM) uses a train of counterpropagating pulses to enhance high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a hollow waveguide. A pump pulse enters one end of the waveguide, and causes HHG in the waveguide. The counterpropagation pulses enter... | 11/09/2010 |
| D622527 | Shelf unit | 08/31/2010 |
| 7750229 | Sound synthesis by combining a slowly varying underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness with quicker varying spectral, pitch and loudness fluctuations The present synthesizer generates an underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness for a sound to be synthesized, and then combines the underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness with stored Spectral, Pitch, and Loudness Fluctuations and noise elements. The input to the synt... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7729403 | High-order harmonic generation in a capillary discharge A pre-ionized medium created by a capillary discharge results in more efficient use of laser energy in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from ions. It extends the cutoff photon energy, and reduces the distortion of the laser pulse as it propagates down the wavegu... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725484 | Scalable object recognition using hierarchical quantization with a vocabulary tree An image retrieval technique employing a novel hierarchical feature/descriptor vector quantizer tool—‘vocabulary tree’, of sorts comprising hierarchically organized sets of feature vectors—that effectively partitions feature space in a hierarchical manner, c... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718885 | Expressive music synthesizer with control sequence look ahead capability The present synthesizer includes functionality for changing over from a current note to the following notes that results in natural and expressive combinations and transitions. The method of the present invention incorporates an delay (actual, functional, or look ah... | 05/18/2010 |
| 6852243 | Confinement device for use in dry etching of substrate surface and method of dry etching a wafer surface A confinement device for operative arrangement within a substrate etching chamber, having a lower surface of the device generally arranged over a substrate outer top surface such that a gap-spacing therebetween is generally equidistant. This spacing is less than a s... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6793387 | Apparatus for automatic preparation of a mixture and method An apparatus and associated method of preparing a mixture using a computerized apparatus having a plurality of vessels, each of which is arranged on a support structure and oriented for dispensing a fluent substance through at least one exit port and a first flow ch... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6734681 | Apparatus and methods for testing circuit boards Methods and apparatus are disclosed for detecting manufacturing defects on unpopulated printed circuit boards under test (BUT) utilizing reliable single point current measurement. In a first set of preferred embodiments, an AC signal generator is connected to a sign... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6729369 | Vessel for containing/transporting a fluent substance An apparatus (having a flexible-walled vessel compatible with a fluent substance not for direct consumption by mammals) for transporting the fluent substance and dispensing during research, testing, and other related processes. The process is separate from a filling... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727712 | Apparatus and methods for testing circuit boards Methods and apparatus are disclosed for detecting manufacturing defects on unpopulated printed circuit boards under test (BUT) utilizing reliable single point current measurement. In a first set of preferred embodiments, an AC signal generator is connected to a sign... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6705096 | Method and plate apparatus for dew point evaporative cooler using a trough wetting system An improved method and apparatus for indirect evaporative cooling of a fluid stream to substantially its dew point temperature. Plate heat exchanger has perforations (11) and channels (3, 4 and 5) for gas on a dry side and wet side. There is a t... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6697538 | Apparatus for producing a flattening map of a digitized image for conformally mapping onto a surface and associated method A computerized apparatus and associated method and program code on a storage medium, for producing a flattening map of a digitized image. This image may be initially synthetically produced as discrete data or as quasi-discrete image data of a real object-... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6688162 | Magnetoelastic sensor for characterizing properties of thin-film/coatings An apparatus for determining elasticity characteristics of a thin-film layer. The apparatus comprises a sensor element having a base magnetostrictive element at least one surface of which is at least partially coated with the thin-film layer. The thin-fil... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6672373 | Method of action of the pulsating heat pipe, its construction and the devices on its base By construction of heat pipes with two phase heat carrying fluid, an efficient heat transfer system is available. The heating section is used to create, within the heat pipe, build up of vapor pressure which causes the heat carrying fluid to move which th... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6665651 | Control system and technique employing reinforcement learning having stability and learning phases A feedback control system for automatic on-line training of a controller for a plant, the system having a reinforcement learning agent connected in parallel with the controller. The learning agent comprises an actor network and a critic network operativel... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6659598 | Apparatus and method for dispersing nano-elements to assemble a device An apparatus for dispersing a first plurality of conductive elongated nano-elements distributed within a carrier-fluid to assemble a conductive device made of a first charge-receptive area of a support surface to which at least one nano-element has attach... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6623007 | Multi-piece 3-D structure of an image with releasable friction-interlock A plurality of relatively rigid elements for arrangement into a three-dimensional (3-D) structure that represents an image; also a method for arranging a plurality of relatively rigid elements into a 3-D structure. Each element has a base-thickness and co... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6601348 | Structures for mitigating wind suction atop a flat or slightly inclined roof An apparatus secured to extend upwardly from a rooftop for redirecting free oncoming flow of a gas passing over an edge of the rooftop. The apparatus has an elongated member having at least a lower flow-surface, and a leading edge portion having a leading... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6587608 | Reconfigurable, all optical add/drop nodes using non-interrupting switching apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods for switching an optical signal between a first path and a second path, where the switching occurs continuously such that substantially all of the optical signal passes through the first path or the second path during switching.... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6577739 | Apparatus and methods for proportional audio compression and frequency shifting Apparatus and methods for audio compression and frequency shifting retain the spectral shape of an audio input signal while compressing and shifting its frequency. The fast Fourier transform of the input signal is generated, to allow processing in the fre... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6563575 | Optical sensing system for detecting welds and defects in metal An optical sensing system for detecting welds and defects in metal brightly illuminates a broad section of the metal and images a swath of the metal onto a multi-element detector array, generating voltage signals representing the reflectivity of the swath... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6434247 | Feedback cancellation apparatus and methods utilizing adaptive reference filter mechanisms A feedback cancellation system for a hearing aid or the like adapts a first filter in the feedback path that models the quickly varying portion of the hearing aid feedback path, and adapts a second filter in the feedback path that is used either as a refe... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6434246 | Apparatus and methods for combining audio compression and feedback cancellation in a hearing aid The present invention combines audio compression and feedback cancellation in an audio system such as a hearing aid. The feedback cancellation element of the present invention uses one or more filters to model the feedback path of the system and thereby s... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6417950 | Three-color imaging on each pixel for increased resolution Apparatus for increasing color resolution and quality in digital imaging systems temporally modulates red, green and blue light, detects all three colors at each pixel, and band pass filters the detected light to extract values for red, green and blue at ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6410940 | Micro-size LED and detector arrays for minidisplay, hyper-bright light emitting diodes, lighting, and UV detector and imaging sensor applications A micro-size LED-like optical element has an n-contact, a p-contact, and an optical active structure connected between the n-contact and the p-contact for generating light when forward biased and for detecting light when reverse biased. The optical active... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6409226 | "Corrugated thick-walled pipe for use in wellbores" Thick-walled steel pipe is corrugated for the purpose of managing axial load when the pipe is used in an earth-restrained application. For example, the pipe may be used as casing in a cyclic steam stimulation well, where the axial loads are induced as the... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6408256 | Apparatus and method for thermal evaluation of any thin material An apparatus and method for evaluation of a material having a first and second contact-surface. The apparatus includes a computer-controlled thermally-variable central element comprising a first and second outer surface, at least one outer surface having ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6397661 | Remote magneto-elastic analyte, viscosity and temperature sensing apparatus and associated methods of sensing An analyte, viscosity, or temperature sensing apparatus for operative arrangement within a time-varying magnetic field, including a sensor with an outer surface that is chemically, frictionally, or thermally responsive and adhered to a base magnetostricti... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6393921 | Magnetoelastic sensing apparatus and method for remote pressure query of an environment A pressure sensing apparatus for operative arrangement within an environment, having: a sensor comprising a hermetically-sealed receptacle, at least one side of which has an flexible membrane to which a magnetically hard element is attached. Enclosed with... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6359444 | Remote resonant-circuit analyte sensing apparatus with sensing structure and associated method of sensing A resonant sensing apparatus for operative arrangement within a test environment to sense an analyte. A sensing structure is included having an antenna in electrical communication with a resonant circuit and a structural element made of a material that se... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6346898 | Multilevel analog to digital data converter having dynamic element matching in a reference data path In a delta sigma analog to digital converter, generally comprising a noise shaping filter element fed into a multilevel quantizer, the output of which is the output of the delta sigma modulator and is also fed through a digital to analog converter array i... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6336555 | Magnetic school organizer A school organizer capable of magnetically attaching to a desk includes a main back portion, which is formed of a single piece of fabric, which is folded in half and sewn to form a top compartment for magnets, a main compartment for markers and paper, and... | 01/08/2002 |
